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From 2012hs.igem.org

Outreach and Human Practices

One of the main goals of our team was to spread awareness of iGEM and bioengineering in our community. We are the inaugural iGEM team in our school, so no one knew who we were or what we did. We did a few outreach projects to spread awareness of iGEM in our school and community.

What we have done

Commercial: We filmed a "what is iGEM?" commercial that detailed what our club does and what bioengineering is in a fun and entertaining manner. This video was shown to the entire school this spring.

News Story: One of our members wrote an news article about our new club. It inclueded quotes from different iGEMers and even a quote from our principal! This was published in a local printing called Neighbor to Neighbor, which is distributed to every house in Tyngsboro and Dunstable.

Future Plans:

iGEM APP: We are working on developing an iGEM ipod app. It will be a fun game, with information about the practices of genetic engineering worked into it. it is still in its development stages and we hope to have it complete for next year.